Books like…

Books Like The Trial

by Franz Kafka · about this book

Loved The Trial by Franz Kafka? If its classics, freedom vs control and male lead hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Frankenstein, 1984 and The Stranger. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside The Trial: Classics · Freedom vs Control · Male Lead · Bleak · Literary Fiction

1. 

   Frankenstein

   Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

   Classics · Tragic · Wrongful Conviction · Haunting · Bleak

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   1984

   George Orwell

   Freedom vs Control · Bleak · Classics · Tragic · Literary Fiction

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   The Stranger

   Albert Camus

   Classics · Courtroom · Courtroom Drama · Bleak · Philosophy

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   Lord of the Flies

   William Golding

   Bleak · Classics · Freedom vs Control · Tragic · Literary Fiction

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5. 

   To Kill a Mockingbird

   Harper Lee

   Wrongful Conviction · Courtroom Drama · Classics · Framed for a Crime · Courtroom

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   Wuthering Heights

   Emily Brontë

   Tragic · Classics · Haunting · Bleak · Literary Fiction

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7. 

   Perfume

   Patrick Süskind

   Haunting · Literary Fiction · Classics · Bleak · Dense Prose

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8. 

   Pet Sematary

   Stephen King

   Bleak · Tragic · Haunting · Classics · Male Lead

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9. 

   The Complete Stories and Poems

   Edgar Allan Poe

   Classics · Haunting · Tragic · Bleak · Dense Prose

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10. 

    Watchmen

    Alan Moore

    Classics · Bleak · Satire · Freedom vs Control · Dense Prose

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11. 

    Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Classics · Tragic · Haunting · Satire · Dense Prose

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12. 

    The Dispossessed

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Freedom vs Control · Philosophy · Classics · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced

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13. 

    Of Mice and Men

    John Steinbeck

    Bleak · Classics · Tragic · Haunting · Literary Fiction

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14. 

    Titus Groan

    Mervyn Peake

    Classics · Literary Fiction · Absurdist Humor · Eerie · Dense Prose

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15. 

    The Mirror & the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    Tragic · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced

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16. 

    A Calamity of Souls

    David Baldacci

    Courtroom Drama · Wrongful Conviction · Framed for a Crime · Courtroom · Political Corruption

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17. 

    The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    Stephen Graham Jones

    Haunting · Bleak · Literary Fiction · Male Lead · Dense Prose

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18. 

    A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    Classics · Tragic · Courtroom Drama · Dense Prose · Literary Fiction

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19. 

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    J.K. Rowling

    Wrongful Conviction · Framed for a Crime · Classics · Male Lead · Eerie

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    Atonement

    Ian McEwan

    Wrongful Conviction · Tragic · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced

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